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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Prologue, the author describes King Philip's War as being almost over in what year?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1648.
(c) 1675.
(d) 1616.

2. What university did John Eliot attend?
(a) Oxford College.
(b) Jesus College, Cambridge.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

3. At what age did Hugo Grotius publish his first book?
(a) 22.
(b) 26.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

4. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) William Hubbard.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) Josiah Winslow.
(d) Richard Callicot.

5. Who was the first Englishman to learn the Algonquian language?
(a) John Eliot.
(b) Increase Mather.
(c) John Sassamon.
(d) William Hubbard.

6. According to the author, the colonists thought the powwaws received their orders from whom?
(a) Mohammad.
(b) Jesus.
(c) The Devil.
(d) God.

7. Sassamon was a Christian minister in what Indian praying town?
(a) Namasket.
(b) Quebec.
(c) Wampapaquan.
(d) Nahauton.

8. A Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians was published in what year?
(a) 1676.
(b) 1612.
(c) 1642.
(d) 1677.

9. Passaconaway is said to have died in what year?
(a) 1679.
(b) 1685.
(c) 1677.
(d) 1721.

10. What word means "shaman" in the language of the Narragansett?
(a) Pagoda.
(b) Powwaw.
(c) Tipi.
(d) Wigwam.

11. What was the capital city of the Massachusetts Bay colony?
(a) Jamestown.
(b) Plymouth.
(c) Boston.
(d) Cambridge.

12. When was the book A Relation of the Troubles which Have Hapned in New-England by Reason of the Indians There from the Year 1614 to the Year 1675 published?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1676.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1677.

13. Where was William Hubbard born?
(a) New Brunswick, Canada.
(b) New York, NY.
(c) Philadelphia, PA.
(d) England.

14. Passaconaway was believed to have been born between 1550 and when?
(a) 1570.
(b) 1679.
(c) 1548.
(d) 1677.

15. When was Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians published?
(a) 1658.
(b) 1677.
(c) 1612.
(d) 1688.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Hugo Grotius die?

2. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?

3. The three men who were accused as the killers of Sassamon were Mattashunannamo, Tobias, and his son, who was named what?

4. What, according to the author, is in many ways a simple tool and is often controlled by the powerful, because it can be used to change minds?

5. The witnesses who testified against Sassamon's accused killers were Patuckson and who?

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